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Originally Posted by Webstral
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It’s true that the US Army does not have any field guns in its inventory at the present. The last field gun was the M107 175mm self-propelled gun. This system was replaced in its role providing long-range fires by field artillery rockets by the 1980’s. However, the M107 was widely exported to US allies. In Twilight: 2000, this system might be found with German, Iranian, Greek, South Korean, and British formations, among others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M107_self-propelled_gun |
The M107 was not a Field Gun. It was a Heavy Howitzer. You can determine this by looking at the gun's elevation and ammo loadout. Field Guns (a Russian staple) have a maximum elevation of around 35 to 40 degrees and possess Anti Tank rounds like HEAT rounds. The M107 has a maximum elevation of 65 degrees and does not have an anti-armor round.
The M107 (6.9") was the predecessor of the M110 (8") and the two share the same chassis. Almost all M107's were rebuilt into M110A2's during the 80's and 90's. The M107 had tube life issues and accuracy issues that were easily resolved by converting them to 8" tubes. This Heavy Howitzer was used by the US Army, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, South Korea, The Netherlands,Turkey, The UK, and west Germany. Greece, Iran, and Israel would be the only countries who had not totally converted to the M110A2 standard by the time of the Twilight War. The M110A2 was the same weight as the M107 but fired a greater weight of shell (204lbs verses 147lbs) more accurately (50m CEP on the M110A2 verses 150m CEP on M107) but with a shorter range (21.3km to 32.7km for the M107)
The M107 and M110 was generally fielded in battalion strengths of 24 guns (8 guns per battery/4 per "smoke"/platoon). There was generally one Heavy Battalion per Division in NATO units. The primary rounds are ICM and ICM-DP. An M110 can deliver an ICM round that has a primary Blast Radius of 100 square meters.